MILLCREEK MALL COMPLEX- ERIE PENNSYLVANIA

Today lets focus on something a bit more positive. Let's take a walk through a thriving mall and go over its history.
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[@Its_just_tuda]

ERIE WHERE U AT🤟🏽💯❤️

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

Right here #814

[@Booth81]

I got to visit this mall back in 2011, and I was surprised by just how nice it was. Great to see it’s still standing.

[@jqueen1380]

The Millcreek Mall, surprisingly, continues to do well. Erie supports their mall.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

More than just Erie supports this mall. Including me from Cincinnati

[@AC22real]

As a for-life resident of Erie, the Millcreek Mall (or, just the Mall) is a centerpiece in Erie tourism and business. Every time I go, it is an active, busy place. Usually, if people are sightseeing or taking trips to other cities through ours, Millcreek Mall is the place to be - plus, no clothing tax in PA! Business will come from Ohio, New York, other parts of PA, and even Ontario. Ontario traffic can be and is due in no small part to the early television days where people in London, ON usually received Erieite transmission. WQLN-TV is still carried there today. So, Millcreek Mall isn't going anywhere.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@AC22real Yeah its a very nice mall. Although I could never live in Erie I do love visiting the area from ohio. I grew up in Detroit and we did a similar thing we would go over to Windsor ON to get cheep meds. and several of Detroits radio stations are located in Windsor. You can often get radio and tv transmissions between the 2 countries across the lakes cus its unobstructed. In fact when im on the coast of Lake Erie in around Sandusky I can listen to Detroit radio over 2 hours away and sometimes it makes it all the way to the Cleveland area

[@beefsticklover6968]

Especially with all the nice restaurants and the round 1 they put in. I go to school at EIT which is pretty much in the mall parking lot

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@beefsticklover6968 cool

[@NoneYaBusiness7]

This mall was my childhood..in the 80’s. Carlisle’s, Hornes, Kauffman’s.. I still remember going to the Brown Derby restaurant there (long gone). Car shows, boat shows, etc. Very fond memories of how decorated this mall and its stores were during Christmas.. The smell of Tiffany’s Bakery always made you beg mom for a treat. Great memories, but only very small parts of this video looked familiar (the metal slats at the entrance of Macy’s, the almost castle-like look of certain stores on the exterior shots, but not much else). Times seemed so much better back then..the world seems to have lost touch with the important things.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thanks for sharing your memories

[@LOLProductionsTV]

As a hometown resident, this place is absolutely nostalgic and still fun to revisit! Hoping they don’t close it down like most malls as it’s a big piece of my childhood! 👏 Great video

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

I don’t see this mall going anywhere anytime soon as it’s the only mall in the area and seems to be successful.

[@BrianJoslyn]

The last time I was at/in Millcreek Mall was 2000/01 because it was going downhill. Although it's still thriving enough to keep stores open, it's still going downhill. The lack of needed renovations are a factor too. Although I moved from southern Erie County PA on Oct. 12 2023, if I were to go back then I'd only go to the mall if I was with someone going there. There are plenty enough other places, even in the general area, to buy anything I need/want.

[@cxryptonic]

This mall is and will always be my favorite mall. Brings back so many memories of going to Erie every weekend as a kid! (We lived in Conneaut back then)

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Oooh too bad connect is a pile of shit nowadays ☹️

[@cxryptonic]

@@TiltedTripodMedia It really is lol. My grandparents still live there and it’s really sad to see how bad it’s gotten.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@cxryptonic so sad to see the theme park gone. Fortunately I was able ride devils den and document it and I got to see blue streak before it was vandalized.

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

Both my grandmas worked at Kaufmann’s in the 1980s and 90s. My mom and dad were mall rats (like just about every other kid in the 80s). My dad lived in nearby McKean and my mom lived in Erie, they both routinely visited the mall when they were in highschool. A lot of stores like Kaufmann’s came and went but thankfully the Millcreek Mall still has several anchors and a healthy local customer base.

[@support16s45]

oh come on now. You can’t group all 80s kids into the mall rat category. There were also actual cool kids who did things outside too.

[@NoraHelmer023]

This is a great, thorough history of, and current survey of, the mall. I spent the majority of my childhood in Erie but haven’t been back for so much as a visit in almost 20 years. Very little of your footage is “recognizable” to me from my time there, so it’s interesting to see how everything has changed. I am old enough to remember the Horne’s/ Lazarus, the Dahlkemper’s (you pronounced it like I always remember hearing it)/ Burlington and the Kaufmann’s. Thank you for posting this.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Glad I was able to bring back memories and share with them. All is currently like with you.

[@54cal54]

I remember the movie theater and a record shop not nrm next to McDonald's and across from there was the game room. Also brown derby the library and a science store i think it was by dahlkempers. This was in 85 around the time of the tornado outbreak. Good times I miss the eighties.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@54cal54 awesome memories

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

Millcreek Mall has done very well, and is actually the largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. A lot of the mall's success has to do with its location. It gets a lot of the tourist traffic in the summertime, and then you have both Ohio and New York within 25 miles of it in either direction. Lastly, the entrance to the Millcreek Mall is about an hour and a half from the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, which brings in busloads of shoppers from Canada who come to Erie to buy tax-free clothing and not pay the 13% harmonized sales tax in Ontario.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

So why wouldn’t the Canadians just go to a mall in Buffalo or Niagara Falls that’s closer to them I know when I lived in Detroit we would get Canadians coming over to Detroit all the time because Windsor Ontario doesn’t have a lot of anything

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

@Tilted Tripod Media Pennsylvania charges no sales tax on clothing, while both Ohio and New York State do. People from the bordering states and Canada will come here and literally spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on clothes, all tax-free.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@mayavenuemisfit814 oh I didn’t know Pennsylvania was that way. I’ll have to do shopping when I’m in that state next time. See you here in Ohio. We have tax free weekend like once or twice a year, but not a permanent thing every day.

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

@@TiltedTripodMedia next time you come to Erie, try a Panos' Greek dog and Greek fries. 😃

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@mayavenuemisfit814 that sound interesting like something you should find at a Detroit Coney Island restaurant

[@thomasmiller5057]

I wish it was a museum It’s a game place Escape room or something (I haven’t researched it)

[@420funny6]

I don't like shopping much but I enjoy going to the mall lol lots of memories there

[@handlenottaken]

I only really shop for BB guns and Airsoft products since I’m that type of guy

[@thomasmiller5057]

Thanks for the history

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Your welcome. That’s my goal here to preserve history. Well and feed myself 😂😂

[@thomasmiller5057]

Sears was the first part of the mall that was built

[@raymondroberts8709]

Grew up going there. All great memories. Remember The Brown Derby restaurant!

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Never heard of that place

[@NoneYaBusiness7]

I mentioned the Brown Derby in my comment too.. THE GARLIC BREAD!! ..and how dim that place was..you almost needed a flashlight to eat.

[@mcgervey]

The mafia/gun/downtown urban legend is one of the dumbest things ever. The mall layout follows the design of the land parcel and adjacent roads and stream bordering the property.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Yeah I would agree it sounded stupid to me too

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

That's just an urban legend among older Erie residents. No one under 40 really either believes or cares all that much about it. Lol.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

@@mayavenuemisfit814 I figured 😄

[@Christine-yx4fh]

My dad built Penny's and country legend

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Wow now that’s incredible.

[@NathanDavisVideos]

Ah yeah my old childhood mall! Apparently not only this is the largest mall in western Pennsylvania; but supposedly this is the 10th largest mall in the United States the last I check.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Oh that’s info I didn’t realize

[@amantedalbora]

Well actually the King of Prussia Mall is the largest mall in PA. The Millcreek I believe is the 3rd largest in Pennsylvania. Mainly due to the "complex" part of the outside stores around the mall, not so much the mall itself.

[@BrendenBaker30]

Do remember the movie theater inside the mall and Elbys Restaurant?

[@amantedalbora]

@@BrendenBaker30 I barely remember the Elby's restaurant, but I definitely remember the movie theater in the mall and the McDonald's that was right next to it.. or.. did the McDonalds take over the movie theater's spot and then they got rid of McDonalds..? Omg that was soooo long ago, hard to remember the order of things. But I do remember the pits in the mall where the payphones were and people went to smoke and the two arcades that were there. *sigh* when malls were fun. lol

[@BrendenBaker30]

@@amantedalbora I remember the 2 arcades. It was Tilt and Red Baron. The mall back then was the spot on Saturday.

[@urbanexploringnorthwest7573]

23:18 that used to be a Kaufmann’s

[@thomasmiller5057]

I heard bad things about the Sears escalators. An employee told me the stairs and handrails pass through an unsanitary area underneath the escalator. (Maybe sewage?) He warned me not to touch the handrails and to this day I avoid touching them. If anyone knows if Boscovs fixed this or if this was true please let us know

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

What that sounds ridiculous. I touched them and I’m not dead

[@mcgervey]

That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. The design wouldn't allow that nor would the mall as it would be detrimental to the livelihood of the escalators functioning as well. That's as dumb as the mafia-gun-downtown rumors. Some people have no lives so they have to make stuff up.

[@Mathin3D]

I miss malls :( I hate rona and Amazon!

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

I agree

[@urbanexploringnorthwest7573]

16:49 that’s actually an escape room place.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Thought it might be

[@gustavoceballos5327]

It is a thriving mall

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Yes and I enjoyed it

[@BrendenBaker30]

Are you from Erie, PA because I am.

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

No I’m not

[@handlenottaken]

I’m from ny,recently moved to Erie and it’s been good so far,I went to the spirit Halloween at the mall and it was my first glimpse of what would be to come my new life.

[@TTVRapidFire605]

Did you take requests

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Requests for what?

[@TTVRapidFire605]

@@TiltedTripodMedia of abounded places

[@Lisa-sz8ms]

My couisinlivesinerie